King's Collapse

For Fisticuffer Harry Krakow ("King Levinsky"),* onetime Chicago fish-peddler, 1934 was a miserable year. In January his sister & manager, "Leaping Lena" Levinsky, divorced her husband in order to have more time to run her brother's affairs. In March he was thrashed by German Walter Neusel. In May, he went to a hospital, for a minor breakdown. In August, he married one Rosie Glickman ("Roxanne Carmine"), World's Fair fan dancer. A month later, Rosie Glickman sued King Levinsky for divorce because he hit her on the jaw. Last month, King Levinsky was matched to fight a four-round bout against Heavyweight Champion Max Baer in the Chicago Stadium. Instead of treating the affair as a friendly exhibition, Champion Baer insulted King Levinsky when they met before the fight, affronted him further by insisting on dangerous 6 oz. fighting gloves instead of the soft 8-oz. ones customary in exhibition fights.

Last week, in the Chicago Stadium, King Levinsky's year had an appropriate ending. In the first round, he managed to maul the Champion with a few wild punches. In the second, Max Baer knocked him out.

*Not to be confused with onetime (1916-20) Light-Heavyweight Champion Barney ("Battling'') Levinsky.

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